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| Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair. |
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| systematically developed statemtns about a plan of care for a specific set of clincial circumstances involving a specific patient population |
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| guarantees that any information the subject provides will not be reported in any manner that identifies the subject and will not be accessible to people outside the research team |
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| a source of knowledge acquired by means of observation or experimentation. |
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| a form of quantitative research that determines how well a program, practice, procedure, or policy is working |
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| evidence-based practice (EBP) |
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| a problem-solving approach to clinical practice that integrates the conscientious use of best evidence in combination with a clinicians expertise and patient preferences and values in making decisions about patient care |
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| tightly controls conditions to eliminate bias and ensure that findings can be generalizable to similar groups of subjects |
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| is a statistical framework for conceptualizing, investigating, and designing reliable observations. It is used to determine the reliability of measurements under specific conditions. |
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| predictions made about the relationship or difference between study variables |
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| reasoning from detailed facts to general principles. |
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| process of obtaining permission from a patient to perform a specific test or procedure after describing all risks, side effects, and benefits |
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| a way to identify new knowledge, improve professional education and practice, and use resources effectively |
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| one reviewed by a panel of experts familiar with the topic or subject matter of the article before it was published |
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| peformance improvement (PI) |
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| an organization analyzes and evaluates current peformance and uses the resluts to develop focused improvement actions |
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| Patient population of interest, Intervention of interest, Comparison of interest, Outcome, Time |
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| qualitative nursing research |
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| the study of phenomena that are difficult to quantify or categorize such as patients perceptions of illness |
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| an approach to the continuous study and improvement of the process of providing health care services to meet the needs of patients and others and inform health care policy |
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| quantitative nursing research |
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| the study of nrsing phenomena that offers precise measurement and quantification |
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| Consistently good in quality or performance; able to be trusted. |
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| an orderly series of steps that allow a researcher to move from asking the research question to finding the answer |
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| the foundaiton of research and the most reliable and objective of all methaods of gaining knowledge |
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| Actually supporting the intended point or claim |
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| concepts, characteristics, or traits that vary within or among subjects |
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